Month: July 2013

From the mouths of children

20130722-100216.jpgLast night, as my wife was putting our seven year-old to bed, he said to her the following as they discussed the decline of bat and bee populations, “God gave people the earth to take care of, not hurt.”

Even my kids get it. It’s that simple.

We live in a world where we continually build more coal plants to produce energy. We live in a world where people fight tooth and nail against green energy solutions because they might make a small noise off in the distance.

We live in a beautiful country, but sadly our governments fall to the sins of pride and greed in supporting non-sustainable environmental practices, propping up these industries with hundreds of millions of tax payer’s money, crippling the future for our children.

Sure, maybe in my house we talk about this stuff more with our children, but they’ve figured it out all themselves that we are destroying our planet.

May the words of my son be in your ears this day, and may our politicians hear them as well.

“God gave people the earth to take care of, not hurt.”

Oh the humanity!

We must put an end to the unending epidemic of collapsing cell towers launching snow and ice at our homes and our safety. This cannot carry on any further! It ends now!

Or so some people in North Sydney would have you think…

The Cape Breton Post had the following story: North Sydney residents upset cell tower built close to homes

“Should the tower fall, MacLeod believes it could hit his home or any of the two other houses next to it.

Even if the tower doesn’t fall, he fears that debris and even ice could fall from the structure and hit homes or people who frequently walk passed it.”

Funnily enough I drove past this area (you can see it clearly from the highway) and there sure are a lot of trees close to houses in that area. I don’t see a lot of clear cutting to protect themselves from falling trees or debris falling from said trees.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t recall hearing a lot of news about falling cell towers, but I sure do hear a lot about falling trees causing damage. Remember Hurricane Juan anyone in Nova Scotia? What caused all that damage? Falling towers? No, falling trees caused a LOT of damage.

Can we start to think rationally for a change? If falling ice and towers is our biggest concern, then maybe some research is in order?

Wind power, cell towers, what’s next?